Hands-on history of science

If one is going to inspire students to begin to think, research and write like historians of science I find…

‘Hear, hear!’ Radio science in 1945

‘There’s always an idea that scientific things are necessarily dull; well, I think my colleagues and myself can dissipate that…

6 December 2011 by Joanna Hopkins

Don’t get me wrong, I love Christmas, but for the last few months I have been resolutely ignoring the festive…

31 October 2011 by Emma Davidson

I’ll take any excuse to write a suitably seasonal blog post, and a recent enquiry concerning a paper about witchcraft…

28 October 2011 by Joanna Corden

The Royal Society was this year presented with the Prince of Asturias Prize for Communication and the Humanities, received by…